The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-04-27
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to fifteen per cent.
THE Tribune says it would be bad bar
gain for this country to admit Canadian fish
free of duty in return for access to the Cana
dian inshore fisheries.
commandments FAIRCHILD of the
Grand Army of the Republic warns all posts
against expressing opinions upon subjects
under public discussion.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says there is an
increasing chance that the President Will
soon proclaim non-intercourse with Canada
under the retaliation law.
GENERAL SHERMAN expresses himself
willing to have all the correspondence that
passed between him and the late General
Logan given to the public.
Six of the prisoners arrested for com
plicity in the plot to assassinate the Gar OF
Russia have been sentenced to death and
the balance to life Imprisonment.
THE Canadian Pacific railway, it is said,
intends to enter the field against the Ameri-
can trunk lines, bidding for traffic at rates
thirty or forty per cent lower than theirs.
Mrs. JOHN NORTON of Worcester, Mass,
who was robbed of her wedding ring on
the street Thursday night, died from con-
WILSON'S resulting from the shock to her
system
A SEVERE snow-storm, accompanied by
high winds and cold weather, ragged along
the line of the Union Pacific railway
between Ogden and Cheyenne all day
Thursday.
INVESTIGATION has been making into the
system of the carrying on of the life insur-
ance business in Michigan. and it is found
that the graveyard plan has been largely
in operation.
The President has appointed Sigourney
Butler of Boston to be second comptroller of
the treasury in place of Judge Maynard, ,
promoted to the assistant secretaryship of
the treasury.
FRIDAY a Grand Trunk freight-train went
through bridge at Morrisburg, Ont, kill
ing the engineer and fireman. The bridge
had been inspected the week before and
pronounced safe.
THE national council of administration of
the Grand Army of the Republic was in
session in Chicago Friday. The matter of
pension legislation was the chief business
before the council.
THE arrest of French boundary COM
missioner by German police agents at Pagny
has deeply agitated France. 1t is regarded
in some quarters as a cdSuS beii, but sat
isfactory explanation is expected.
CHICAGO dispatches say that the three
socialist organizations in the United States
are going to unite in single political organ
izaton in order to bring compact column
to bear in all political contests city, state or
national.
NEWS comes of the sinking of the Brazil
ian packet Bahia - of Rio, as the result of
a collision off the coast of South America
nearly month ago. Less than one hundred
persons out of two hundred fifty on board
were saved.
WILLIAM Ii. MITCHELL, president of the
Exchange Bank of Detroit, has disappeared
with all the funds of the concern. Mitchell
was bachelor aged about forty-tive years.
His personal rating was between 100000
and 100000.
A SPECIAL meeting of the Protestant min
listers was held in Montreal to protest
against the bill now before the Quebec
legislature proposing to place crucifixes in
all the courts of law for the purpose of
strengthening the oaths of witnesses.
THE arrivals at Liverpool of emigrants en-
route to the United States have attained
such unusual magnitude that many extra
steamers are being employed to transport
them hence, the capacity of the regular
lines being inadequate to the demands for
passage.
Mr.. GLADSTONE writes that he does not
desire general election to parliament I'M
til the English mind is as ripe on the Irish
question as the Welsh and Scotch minds
Anyhow" he says, 81 am prepared to
face anything to defeat coercion"
AT Rolling Fork, Miss, last week, hail
storm occurred the like of which was never
witnessed there before. 1t hailed steadily
thirteen minutes and thousands of hail
stones fell larger than hens eggs Several
were picked up that measured five and
three-fourths inches in circumference.
THE Chicago NelCS declares that the anar-
chist society in that city has disbanded I'M
der the advice of its more conservative
members and of the Central Labor Union
1t has been made to realize that its name is
mentioned with horror, and that the only
hon Dfu +In1 81, a
men is to do this.
A NEW YORK CENTRAL eXpress-train
bound east ran into mass of soft earth
which had slid from hill on to the track
about one o'clock last week Tuesday morn
ing. The engine went over an embank
ment into the Mohawk river, and Engineer
Edward Kennah was killed and the fire
mans leg broken.
EDWARD A. MosELEY of New buryport and
Boston, democratic member of the Massa
chusetts Legislature, has been appointed
secretary of the interstate commerce com
mission. Mr.. Moseey is member of the
lumber firm of Stetson, Moseley & Co., anC
was last year president of the Mechanics
Exchange of Boston. He is also member
of the democratic state committee
JOHN w. DANENHowER, the Arctic ex
plorer, committed suicide by shooting him
self at Annapolis, Md, the Goth. He wa
thirty-seven years old. Although he had hat
mental troubles since he returned from the
Arctic regions, what Immediately led to tn,
suicide is thought to have been the recen
grounding of the Constellation on its way Il
Norfolk, which he had charge of, and TO
which it is supposed he had fear of being
court-martialed.
The Hon. JAMES G. BLAINE arrived a
Chicago last Monday He was met at thu
depot by his sons, Walker and Emmons
and crowd of people. Accompanying Mr.
Blaine were his wife, his daughter, Harrie
Blaine, and Abigail Dodge. The party wer
at once driven to the Grand Pacific Hotel
where they breakfasted. Walker Blain
said that his father had completely recov
cred from his late illness and was feelin
better than for some time past.
In the New York state senate Friday, dun
ing roll-call on motion for adjournment
message was received from the governo
relating to certain appointments upon whic
that body had taken no action. The lieu
tenant-governor interrupted the roll-call TO
its reading, but republican members pre-
tested against it. An uproar followed bu
the lieutenant-governor insisted, and rea
the message himself Now there is talk {
lmpeaching him for usurping his authority
Hon. ALEXANDER MITCHELL of Wisconsi
died in New York last week of pneumonia
aged seventy. His estate is valued at S15
O00, 600 to $50 0000 600. He was president {
the Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, as we
as of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Par
railroad He was born in Scotland an,
came to this country in 1899. He was
Jealous supporter of Tilden in 1876 and ha
Tilden secured the presidency would nroh